Below are some free resources from our Primary Arts Masterclasses, delivered by creative literary experts from the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education.
Please feel free to use and adapt these resources for your teaching. While we can give you free access to these resources, we ask that you don't publish or share them as they have been created to support other paid courses run by the CLPE. Thank you.
Transforming Literacy Through Drama with Kate Hopewell - Thursday 9 July 2026
- CLPE Drama Masterclass with AND Handout 2026
- The King Who Banned the Dark
- We're Going to Find the Monster! Teaching Sequence
- Bear & Bird Teaching Sequence
- The CLPE Reading and Writing Scales: Designed to help teachers and support staff understand what progression in reading and writing looks like and suggesting next steps so that teachers can plan in order to take children into the next phase of their development.
- CLPE Teaching Approaches: Explore tried and tested teaching approaches to promote engagement and attainment in your primary school, including many of those experienced during the masterclass and found within the teaching sequences.
- CLPE’s Research helping schools to implement evidence-based teaching practice and provision.
- CLPE's Blog - this one on the importance of drama in the primary classroom.
Transforming Literacy Through Poetry with Valerie Bloom - Wednesday 17 June 2026
- CLiPPA Teaching Sequences
- The CLPE Reading and Writing Scales
- CLPE’s Research helps schools to implement evidence-based teaching practice and provision. Learn more about research related to poetry here, which includes our most recent poetry survey and CLPE's What We Know Works booklets.
- Poetry Videos:
- Valerie Bloom website
- Learn more about CLPE’s annual poetry award and the schools’ shadowing scheme
Transforming Literacy Through Picture Books with Daishu Ma - Wednesday 6 May 2026
- CLPE Slide Handout AND Masterclass Picturebooks May 2026
- Tiger, It's Snowing! Power of Pictures Teaching Sequence EYFS
- Tiger, It's Snowing! Power of Pictures_Teaching Sequence KS1
- Tiger, It's Snowing! Power of Pictures_Teaching Sequence KS2
Transforming Literacy Through Storytelling with Jan Blake - Wednesday 25 February 2026
- CLPE Storytelling Masterclass with AND Handout 2026
- Little Red Riding Hood EYFS Teaching Sequence CLPE
- Pattan's Pumpkin KS1 Teaching Sequence CLPE
- Tales from the Caribbean UKS2 Teaching Sequence CLPE
Planning Creatively Around Quality Texts with Nicola Davies - Wednesday 28 January 2026
- CLPE Slide Handout Creativity Masterclass
- Hummingbird Facts
- Hummingbird Teaching Sequence
- Surprising Sharks Teaching Sequence
- Take 5 - Hummingbird by Nicola Davies and Jane Ray
- The Promise Teaching Sequence
